Despatches have been received from Lord BELMORE in the course
of the week ; but not to a later date, nor containing any further particulars of interest, than the newspapers find letters no- ticed in our last second edition. From these it appeared, that two of the rebel chiefs had surrendered; and that their followers, if not reconciled, were everywhere subdued. The wrath of the planters- against the Baptist Missionaries has been extreme. Nearly all the chapels belonging to these pious and painstaking men have been pulled down ; not covertly or riotously, but openly in the day-time, and by the militia forces under arms for the protection of the colony. Two clergymen, named Bunctista, and GARDNER, are stated to be in custody—another account says three. This ac- count mentions also a White not a clergyman. The number of sugar estates destroyed is 53, of pens 100. The Negroes that were out are estimated at 50,000. Of the insurgents, 35 have been judi- cially executed, one of them a female. The number killed in the various rencontres cannot of course be known. Twelve Whites are said to have been killed.
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